CTF (UK) supports many projects around the globe. We help raise money locally in the UK and then provide it to the managing organisations on the ground. There are currently 6 main projects CTF is involved with the areas we work in are illustrated on the map at the bottom of this page. Our projects involve land purchase in conservation ‘Red’ Zones, enabling reserves to be built up, protecting both flora and forna in these hugely diverse areas of the planet.
The Monteverde Cloud Forest – Costa Rica
42,000 acres of beautiful cloud forest in Costa Rica. It is managed by the Monteverde Conservation League with money raised by children and their supporters all over the world, and is home to a huge range of plants, animals, insects and birds.
Rincon Rainforest – Costa Rica
Along the north edge of the easternmost Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG),which is in northwestern Costa Rica. The ACG covers about 2% of the country and is under the control of the internationally respected ecologist, Professor Dan Janzen of the University of Pennsylvania. The ACG is 110,000 hectares of dry forest, cloud forest and rain forest, and 43,000 hectares of Pacific ocean.The ACG crosses 9 Life Zones from the dry Pacific coastal plain to the Atlantic rainforests.
Bilsa Reserve – Ecuador
The 3,000 hectares (7,410 acres) Bilsa Biological Station is a nature preserve and a center for field research and environmental education in northwestern coastal Ecuador. Founded in 1994 by the Fundación Jatun Sacha in memory of conservation biologists Al Gentry and Ted Parker, Bilsa conserves a critical remnant of Ecuador’s coastal premontane wet forest, of which less than one percent remains.
Uwasu Rainforest Reserve – Amazonian Brazil
The Uwasu Rainforest Reserve lies in the heart of Amazonian Brazil and is a relatively new conservation initiative. In December 1999, a Brazilian Conservation Trust known as the Amazon Association for the Protection of Areas of High Biodiversity (AAP) purchased 2,000 hectares with the help of CTF (UK).
Jatun Sacha – Amazonian Ecuador
The Second International Children’s Rainforest at Jatun Sacha comprises 5,000 acre reserve where the foothills of the Andes overlook the vastness of the Amazon Basin.
The reserve is managed by the Jatun Sacha Foundation and is one of the most biologically diverse areas on Earth.
Khao Nor Chuchi – Thailand
One of the last areas of lowland rainforest left in Thailand. It is home to a fantastic range of plants and animals, including one of the world’s rarest birds, Gurney’s Pitta.
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